Friday, July 22, 2005

There's a story in one of this week's free papers (I forget which, and they're downstairs, not by the PC) saying that 200 kids turned up on bikes as part of Heathfield School's "Wheely Wednesday" activity. Heathfield is one of the four (or three?) Bike It schools in Darlington, being targetted as schools where cycling could be increased.

It seems to me that there's real potential for encouraging cycling in Darlington schools. Get 'em while they're young... Of course, the challenge would be to keep them riding when they go up to secondary school, and past 17 when they can drive...

Saturday, July 16, 2005

The next meeting of Darlington Cycling Campaign will be held in the upstairs room of the Red Lion pub, Priestgate, starting at 7pm on Tuesday 19th July. Amongst other things, we'll be reviewing the two cycle route tours, and looking at proposals for grant-funded projects following Anthony's excellent work in digging around for funding sources.

Darlington Cycling Campaign enjoyed wonderful summer sun on 10th July as we checked out the cycle routes of west Darlington. Split between the town centre "designated cycle routes" - streets with the odd painted bicycle on the tarmac - and out of town off-road routes, campaign members had a lot to say about their pros and cons. A full set of photographs of the tour can be viewed at our Flickr site .

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